(LBJ) had what a journalist calls “a genius for analogy”— made the point unforgettably, in dialect, in the rhythmic cadences of a great storyteller. Master of the senate

People who sneer at a half a loaf of bread have never been hungry." George Reedy

The air of compromise is rarely appreciated fully by men of principle. C. Vann Woodward

With Johnson, you never quite knew if he was out to lift your heart or your wallet. Roy Wilkins

He is not the leader of great causes, but the broker of little ones.

The breath of life of the Senate is, of course, continuity,

their anxiety, justified or not, was genuine,

Sam Rayburn on LBJ's recuperation from his heart attack: "It would kill him if he relaxed.

He took the trolley instead of the bus because it was smoother and he could read on it.

That speech (Daniel Webster's) “raised the idea of Union above contract or expediency and enshrined it in the American heart.

its size, the House was an environment in which, as one observer put it, members “could be dealt with only in bodies and droves.

After spending all of his resources to create all of us, not just one or two people, but in millions and billions and yet, God cannot find a man who will stand for him

I have had friends who have acted kindly towards me, and it has been my good fortune to have it in my power to give them substantial proofs of my gratitude.

Our government rests in public opinion. Whoever can change public opinion, can change the government, practically just so much.

To imagine the world without gods and religion is reasonable enough; to imagine mankind without them is an entirely different matter.

Whether one was going to have a horse, or a dog, or a child, with that comes a great responsibility to raise them.

That strategy of racing for the top five and racing for the win is where everybody wants to be.

When you're an actor, actually, you shouldn't come up with too many ideas.

My goal was always getting my work out in the world, and in many ways, I feel like the luckiest person alive.

It is not what you do, but what you stop doing that matters.

Actually, I get a little say in what my character would or wouldn't do.